Film
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Sep- 2021 -29 September
‘Paka’ (‘River of Blood’): ‘A home-grown film that is being shown around the world’ (video, Toronto International Film Festival 2021)
It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and we caught up with debutant filmmaker Nithin Lukose…
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24 September
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: Lifting festive spirits as cinema industry remains in doldrums with reported half a billion pound losses…
In our regular monthly review of Bollywood from our correspondent in Mumbai, the situation remains very patchy, however, online it’s…
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22 September
Film festival bird bites: ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ Toronto award, ‘Paka’; Satyajit Ray London weekend; ‘Invisible Demons’ capital to capital -TIFF, LIFF and LFF…
TIFF 2021 Amplify Voices Award; ‘Paka’ coming to acv *Click to see pictures – A Night of Knowing Nothing (centre);…
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17 September
ACV Bird Eye Review Show: Horror and spook – ‘Mumbai Diaries 26/11’, ‘Uravidam’ and ‘Bhoot Police’
Check in with our Nat as she looks at the latest releases online and what’s caught her beady vulture eyes…
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15 September
‘Avijatrik’ (‘The Wanderlust of Apu’) – new follow-on film to Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ (‘The World of Apu’) comes to England for the first time…
English cinemagoers’ first opportunity to see keenly anticipated new Indian film inspired by – and made partly as a tribute…
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12 September
Venice 2021 (wrap): Awards for ‘Happening’; Penelope Cruz; Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Erik Matti; John Arcilla and Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Hand of God’ among others…
The 78th Venice Film Festival had an impressive line-up of films this year and many will feel the starting gun…
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12 September
Venice 2021 – director Seemab Gul’s ‘Mulaqat’ (‘Sandstorm’) asks powerful questions about online ‘relationships’ and shows abundant promise…
Emerging British Pakistani filmmaker makes a mark with short… SHOT with poise, elegant in its framing, and well-acted, it’s not…
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12 September
Venice 2021 (video): Bengali star actor Sreelekha Mitra – “Sometimes a woman can manipulate a man and if she wants it to be physical, it’s her choice”
STAR of Bengali screen – Sreelekha Mitra doesn’t hold back in talking about her character, Ela’s situation in the film,…
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12 September
Venice 2021 (video): ‘Once upon a time in Calcutta’ writer-director Aditya Vikram Sengupta: “I wanted to explore the city through people and their mindsets”
‘ONCE UPON A TIME IN CALCUTTA’ is a film that had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival…
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9 September
London Film Festival 2021 (early preview) – look out for Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar and Asif Kapadia and two Indian films and comedy, ‘7 days’…
We’ve highlighted some films which we think will pique your interest, asianculturevultures from this year’s offering at the 65th British…
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